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Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication (2019)
Journal Article
Crosbie, B., Ferguson, M., Wong, G., Walker, D. M., Vanhegan, S., & Dening, T. (2019). Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication. BMC Medicine, 17(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1286-9

Background: Managing hearing communication for residents living with hearing loss and dementia in long-term care settings is challenging. This paper explores how care can be effective in optimising hearing communication for residents living with deme... Read More about Giving permission to care for people with dementia in residential homes: Learning from a realist synthesis of hearing-related communication.

Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) (2017)
Journal Article
Kingston, A., Wohland, P., Wittenberg, R., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., …Weller, R. (2017). Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS). Lancet, 390(10103), 1676-1684. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2817%2931575-1

Background Little is known about how the proportions of dependency states have changed between generational cohorts of older people. We aimed to estimate years lived in different dependency states at age 65 years in 1991 and 2011, and new projections... Read More about Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS).

Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes (2017)
Journal Article
Petyaeva, A., Kajander, M., Lawrence, V., Clifton, L., Thomas, A. J., Ballard, C., …Corbett, A. (2018). Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(1), 221-231. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4727

Objectives: The objective of this study was to establish the feasibility and initial effectiveness of training and support intervention for care staff to improve pain management in people with dementia living in care homes (PAIN-Dem). Methods: PAIN-D... Read More about Feasibility of a staff training and support programme to improve pain assessment and management in people with dementia living in care homes.

Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
van der Linde, R. M., Dening, T., Stephan, B. C., Prina, A. M., Evans, E., & Brayne, C. (2016). Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(5), 366-377. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.148403

Background More information about the pattern of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in the course of dementia is needed to inform patients and clinicians and to design future interventions. Aims To determine the persiste... Read More about Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review.

Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country (2016)
Journal Article
Matthews, F. E., Bennett, H., Wittenberg, R., Jagger, C., Dening, T., & Brayne, C. (2016). Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country. PLoS ONE, 11(9), Article e0161705. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161705

Background: There have been fundamental shifts in the attitude towards, access to and nature of long term care in high income countries. The proportion and profile of the older population living in such settings varies according to social, cultural,... Read More about Who lives where and does it matter? Changes in the health profiles of older people living in long term care and the community over two decades in a high income country.

Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia (2015)
Journal Article
Dening, T., & Babu Sandilyan, M. (2015). Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia. Nursing Standard, 29(45), 43-49. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.29.45.43.e9424

This article, the fifth in a series on dementia, discusses the principles of management and treatment of people with dementia. It describes how to proceed after a diagnosis of dementia has been made in the early stages of the condition, and general m... Read More about Medical treatment and management of patients with dementia.

Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (2014)
Journal Article
Van Der Linde, R. M., Dening, T., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2014). Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(6), 562-568. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4037

Objective A wide range of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) are common in dementia, and it has been suggested that groups of correlated symptoms should be studied together. Here, we describe the groups of BPSD that have been identified in... Read More about Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Depression and mood changes (2007)
Book Chapter
Cullum, S., Tucker, S., & Dening, T. R. (2007). Depression and mood changes. In M. Rees, & L. Keith (Eds.), Medical Problems in Women over 70: When Normative Treatment Plans do not Apply (77-92). Taylor & Francis

Depression is the most common mental health problem experienced by older women. Although everyone may feel sad or lonely at times, depressive illness in later life is qualitatively and quantitatively different. True depression is a serious and disabl... Read More about Depression and mood changes.

The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people (1998)
Journal Article
Dening, T., & Lawton, C. (1998). The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(12), 863-870. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1166%281998120%2913%3A12%3C863%3A%3AAID-GPS885%3E3.0.CO%3B2-L

Objectives. To examine, using the published literature and local service experience, the contributions that carers can make to the development and evaluation of specialist mental health services for the elderly. Methods. MEDLINE search for relevant p... Read More about The role of carers in evaluating mental health services for older people.

The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation (1992)
Journal Article
Dening, T. R., & Berrios, G. E. (1992). The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 7(8), 585-589. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.930070808

The Hachinski Ischaemic Score (HIS) was first introduced in 1975 as a clinical scale intended to differentiate cases of dementia resulting from multiple strokes (multi‐infarct dementia) from those with primary degenerative dementias. Its conceptual b... Read More about The Hachinski Ischaemic Score: A reevaluation.